we know that's the case but we also know now that the head of the doj, the top of the doj was bruce ohre. there is a basis for his concern. he use the term political surveillance and the term unauthorized surveillance. i think the big irony here, and what drives americans crazy, is the very week we get this information, bruce ohr's 302s, it sort of puts it all together for us,t the very week we get that is the same week at these people at the upper echelon are suing the american taxpayer to get paid for wrongful termination. andrew mccabe lied three times under oath. peter strzok ran both investigations and was fired because of things he said like stay warm while, lack of candorr trump will -- >> sean: they did go after general flynn for her lack of candor, paul manafort, lack of candor. and they went after michael cohen, lack of candor. they all played a criminal price. now we have the fbi, former fbi director super patriot jim comey apparently had a lack of candor. that's just the tip of the iceberg for him. i suspect lindsey graham, i'm just thinking that maybe if my name was brennan

doj report turns a new page in what we know about the trump russia probe. michael horowitz issuing a full report on fired fbi director james comey and his controversial leaked memos. john malcolm joins us to break down what this means and what we can expect to learn. thank you for joining us on this busy day. what can we learn from this? what about this report coming out that there are two reports, on the comey memos he put together kick you >> we already know quite a bit. we know that after donald trump fired james comey in 2017 he had these memos, five that he provided a friend of his, a columbia law professor and told richmond to lead them to the new york times, those memos contained classified information, comey testified why he did, he was -- getting historian, he wanted to have his defense ready and we know that report had been prepared and provided to the department of justice and this summer the department of justice declined to prosecute jim comey. we will learn about the nature of those memos and what the classified information is and based on com

the report exposes plenty of misconduct, doj prosecutors have decided not to take further action against him, will they reach the same decision with andrew mccabe? a former to spokesman at joins us tonight. what is the fallout? this report comes out, a lot of us feel vindicated, there's also a lot of shouting on cable news, what are the real life implications? >> if i'm andy mccabe, i'm shaking right now because this has been the second or third inspector general report where somebody has been referred over to doj and they have to decide on prosecution. i think they looked at the case and said this is probably not the slam-dunk case we want but andy mccabe is a slam-dunk case, he lied to the fbi in an investigation. now you have horowitz say what he did here was a terrible example for the 35,000 employees of the fbi, what do you think if you look at the next issue you have to deal with? what kind of example what it set if you let mccabe off the hook for lying in an fbi investigation, that is a terrible precedent. >> tucker: it sounds like they are letting comey off the hook here. >> ther

and yet, the doj doesn't want to prosecute.ow we've got comey, who stole government documents, leaked them to the media, and to friends, he admitted that he leaked them. and apparently some of these are classified.pp that's a violation of the espionage act, whether it's intentional or grossly negligent is what hillary clinton did and i name in my book 600 individuals who did this and got prosecuted for it, yet james comey does not? i think it's a mistake. however, i do sorts of understad that if a prosecution is going to be made over all of this, you want to go with your best case and may be william barr and the doj is waiting for the ig's criminal referral on fisa abuse which would include that and man we just saw on your screen, james comey. >> jason: sara, james comey is not out of the woods yet. there still is this ig report that more and probably, you have durham who is pursuing things and couldn't bring up a number of charges along the way? >> absolutely. it's not just frustrating to horwitz. if we want to go back to this

doj prosecutors have decided not to take further action againsty him. will they reach the same discussion with andrew mccabe? former spokesman at the doj joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. thanks for having me. >> tucker: 's of this report comes out, a lot of us feel vindicated, also kind of shocked by it. there's lots of shouting on cable news, but one of the real-life implications of this report? >> i think first and foremost the most important thing that we are going to see, if i'm andy mccabe, i am shaking right now because this is been, what, the second or third inspector general report where

i don't think it just ends at doj or with the fbi itself. think this goes across dod, we are saying that, that they don't want to give information either viewed we are seeing a lot of agents choose to withhold information from congress and congress has got to hold people in contempt and, you know, but, right now, we are a fact was. i can't help but agree with you because you serve that, tom and i there, i get frustrated at the stonewalling we get from the administration's that are of the same party and they reject documents and they will say it's for national security and then you've seen what i have. it becomes unredacted. it was only because they were embarrassed at the corruption and the level of corruption and bureaucracy. it has nothing to to do with national security. so we have to push forward on this. >> yet, but andy biggs is talking about was exactly right. i saw time after time almost on a daily basis things that were redacted because they were politically embarrassing. not because they were actually true classifications. but how

so he violated doj policy by disclosing information outside the fbi. but these written memos he himself had written. and, again, he -- the big question here is were they -- were they his memos or did they belong to the fbi? the i.g. said they belonged to the fbi, but he wrote the memos. i'd just like to point out that because he made one of them public and he said he did this on purpose, he triggered the -- the special counsel investigation. and as a result of that, we learned in pretty good detail about russian interference in the 2016 election. and also potentially obstructive acts by the president. so i don't see -- i don't -- do americans think that's not a good idea that we learned that? so that would be my question. >> well, so let's pick up that question, jeremy, because that was comey's justification for leaking this story, for having his friend leak this story to "the new york times" in the first place. he had just been fired. he had these memos. he believed he witnessed conduct by the president that needed to come to light, that needed to be

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doj prosecutors have decided not to take further action againsty him.ame discussion with andrew mccabe? former spokesman at the doj joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. thanks for having me. >> tucker: 's of this report comes out, a lot of us feel vindicated, also kind of shocked by it. there's lots of shouting on cable news, but one of the real-life implications of this report? >> i think first and foremost the most important thing that we are going to see, if i'm andy mccabe, i am shaking right now because this is been, what, the second or third inspector general report where somebody has been referred over to doj and they have to decide on prosecution. they chose not to prosecute. i think they look at the case and said look, this is probably not a slam-dunk case we want but andy mccabe is a slam-dunk case. he lied to the fbi in investigation. you had horwitz say what comey did here was a terrible example of the 35,000 employees of the fbi. what do youam think, if you are doj and are looking at the next issue that you have to deal with,

molly hemingway, jason chaffitz will take you inside the doj the inspector general's damning report on jim comey andnd revealing important new detail a lot of people are missing it. also, the man who first hired comey in government, rudy giuliani. yes, he's responsible. is here with a fiery response. and, perhaps, a ting of regret. plus, a man who served at the highest levels of the fbi with comey is now calling for the former director to i apologize o the men and women of the bureau. his emotional plea later. and, in the latest installment of our raymond on the road series, it will shock you. we're going to take you to venice beach, california, where residents are being overrun by not just homeless people ander plat that entails, but aggressive homeless people. he's going to show you how the people and the business owners are fighting back. but, first, the liar, the wimp and the wardrobe. that's the focus of tonight's "angle." you get the sense that when director comey entered the fbi building, it became like the wardrobe in that famous c.s. lewis book. his open fantasy land with rule

the doj storyth because this just crossed. we could assume google was at the top of the list.ark: looks like they are looking at google and google's business -- biggest business which is research and advertising. what we reported today is looking beyond the usual suspects of characters and rivals in yelp, oracle, they have been complaining about google for years. sounds like we have reporting the doj is talking to other news publishers, other ad tech industries that have complained more quietly about google's display advertising business. it is so dominant there, and they make the claims that google has been behaving anti-competitively. google is being investigated, but we don't know if facebook is being investigated. kirk: if they're looking into the broader ad industry, facebook is number two to google. emily: let's talk about the ad averages that sound pretty awful. it doesn't sound like they're good for facebook's bottom line. kirk: no, they are not. and they are really bad if you are an advertiser. the whole point i was told to set the reason you do these campaigns is bec

the american people deserve to know what was going on in the doj. 22 months dealing with the mueller investigation, and i think the american people want to know what was going on at the doj with the people that were involved in that investigation. so i call on william barr to ask the fbi director to make those public. elizabeth: you know, let's remind everybody the kinds of texts we're talking about. here's this text that happened three months before the election in 2016. in august lisa page said trump is not ever going to become president; right? peter strzok said no no he's not. we're going to stop him. here's the other issue, the unmasking, the requests to unmask the names of innocent people on the trump campaign. we have this number, federal agency searches of names or phone numbers of u.s. citizens in surveillance databases under the obama administration exploded from 9500 searchs to more than 30,000 searches in 2016? that's a lot of people being searched in these databases. what's going on here? >> again, i'm glad john durham is doing an inves

you have doj saying, they're not going to prosecute. saying he broke the rules but he won't be prosecuted. explain what the rationale is there. >> he broke no laws. that's the bottom line. he did not leak classified information which would be breaking the law. he was very careful with the memos. you can see if you look at the report, how he redacted some of the memos before he gave them to his lawyers. he certainly didn't give any classified information to reporters. so he violated doj policy by disclosing information outside the fbi. the ig said, i would like to point out, because he made one of them public, and he said he did this on purpose. he triggered the special counsel investigation. as a result of that, we learned in pretty good detail about russian interference in the 2016 election. and also, potentially obstructive acts by the president. so i don't see, i don't, it is not a good idea that we learned that? that's my question. >> let's pick up that question. that was comey's justification for leaking this. for having his friend

was that important for the doj to consider?hink it's fair to say that should have been taken into account, why comey did what he did. but i will point out there were other channels comey could have used to request the appointment of special counsel short of taking the measures that he did leaking memos, taking they will out of the office and that sort of thing. so i think while it is important to understand the context, i don't know it will fully justify what he did. >> comey does feel it is clearly important. he is tweeting about this, defending himself. he has not re -- did not release classified information at the time some of what was later classified at its lowest level saying i don't need a public apology about those who defamed me, but a quick message with a sorry we lied about you would be nice. >> he evaded prosecution which is critical. he is not getting charged by the justice department. that's a victory for jim comey. as you correctly noted this was a a little bittering report. it doesn't put comey in a good light.

this is all fed into the doj on april 5 and april 30th.on may 9th, they moved maria butina from an isolation cell in a unit in virginia to the nicest women's camp in the federal system. and -- >> how do you know? >> and on may 14, john durham was appointed. may 13th. so two weeks after i went in. >> how do you know -- >> her, well, her lawyer. >> a shu is a special housing unit. a different time of housing they have available for certain inmates. >> in some countries, solitary confinement more than three months is considered torture. they had, they sentenced her to 18 months in solitary could not finement for ten months until i been in and spoke up. >> are you sympathetic to maria? you had you said it was a romantic relationship. do you have feelings for her? >> i'm very fond of her. >> do you think she's a spy? >> maria needs to go home to russia and be the next -- the best thing that could happen to russia and the united states is if maria butina gets out and goes home and is a national hero. >> why would that be good for us if the gover

doj already said we're not going to do it. it fits into the category, you can do a lot of stupid things in life but not necessarily get pursued criminally for it. >> dana: you can all do things like wearing your wake forest tie today. don't think i didn't notice. you're a big fan of wake forest. we appreciate you coming on the show today, jim trusty. turning now to hurricane dorian as forecasters warn it could be a monster category 4 storm when it hits the mainland possibly over the labor day weekend. the storm rolling through the caribbean, collapsing roads and causing power outages on some islands. puerto rico dodged a direct hit, but one 80-year-old man died while preparing for the storm. it is now eyeing florida's east coast, as the state's governor urges residents to be prepared. >> the time to act is now. if you haven't acted, act to make preparations. do not wait until it's too late. if you prepared and then don't end up getting affected, no harm no foul. if you don't prepare, that may be something difficult to recover

>> the most interesting thing, democrats have been accusing bill barr and doj at large under the trump acting essentially as donald trump's personal attorney, right? but yesterday, what we actually saw, they were adopting and the legal arguments of the president's personal attorneys. i remember sitting in federal court on the day they heard arguments on the district court level for the subpoena seeking the president's financial records from that accounting firm. and the president's personal attorney was up there saying, look, this is political harassment. there's no legislative purpose for the congress getting these tax records. and now you have doj essentially putting that exact argument on paper and seeking to intervene in this lawsuit at the circuit level. >> it seems to be the common line of defense. political harassment here. i want to talk quickly about the dhs, are these changes having seen as put the safety of americans at rick? risk? >> yes, those departments have been gutted over the last few years. but when you look at what is gaining traction in congress, it's the laws not

the doj is declined to press charges. what happens next? here with expert insight, we always enjoy having you with us. you've been with us from the beginning following this was what were your initial thoughts? >> comey's reputation is in threads. vig report confirmed the arrogance and holier than thou attitude of james comey thinking none of the rules that apply to fbi personnel apply to him and it is terrible that someone with that kind of attitude was in charge of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the country and he is totally unapologetic which makes it even worse. heather: not only is he unapologetic but he says he is the one who deserves the apology. he sent this tweet saying the doj ig found no evidence your his attorneys release any classified information in any of the memos to members of the media. i don't need a public apology from those who defame me but a quick message with a sorry we lied about you would be nice. >> that tweet that he's owed an apology once again shows not only his arrogance but his unwillingness to ac

of the doj and the fbi, and one for the rest of us. i can't imagine any of you at home, if you had subpoenaed emails, and you tried -- tried to delete them, destroy the hard drives, bust up the devices and remove the sim cards, that that would work out well for you. and if you were warned that the information you were about to present before a court was full of lies, it's unverified, it's not corroborated, had a political agenda, and you presented it anyway, as if it was verified -- which we now know to be unverifiable -- i don't think he would do very well go before the judge when the judge came down hard on you for lying to a cord. so we have good news on all of these fronts tonight, according to solomon coming to white house initiative by president trump to declassify a variety of government documents, now underway. if that is news. we need transparency. joining us now with more as investigative journalist and executive vice president of "the hill," john solomon. is this like an office of transparency? >> yes, it is, and it could be

cal doj and heinz will be very happy. next item, please. >> line item six, presentation regarding healthy streets operations center, hsoc, discussion. >> good evening. i am commander david lazar of the community engagement division. tonight, i am pleased to be joined by many of our partners and city on the healthy streets operations center. i know we have been here before and talked about the collaborative work we are doing. tonight, we have a presentation to make and i think the homeless coalition is also going to make their presentation and give you a full picture. i am joined by cary abbott from the department of homeless assistant housing. mary allen carroll from the department of emergency management. sam peoples and larry stringer from the department of public works. laura marshall from the controller's office, and emily: from the mayor's office. our first presenter will be from carrie abbott from the department of homeless supported housing. >> thank you. >> carrie is on her way in, but i would jump in and her plac

this is all sent in to the doj on april 5th and 30th.ys later, may 9th they moved maria butina from an isolation cell in virginia to the nicest women's camp in the federal system. >> how do you know? >> may 14th john durham was appointed. may 13th. >> how do you know? >> her lawyer. her lawyer. >> she was in a special housing unit. a different type of housing that you have available. in some countries solitary confinement more than three months is considered torture. they sentenced her to 18 months in solitary confinement for 10 months until i went in and spoke up. >> are you sympathetic to butina? do you have feelings for her? >> i am very fond of her. maria needs to go home to russia and be the next president. best thing for russia and the united states is if maria butina goes home a national hero. >> why would would it be good for us if a russian spy goes home and is a hero? >> chris. names are the guests of reality. you put a word like spy. this girl -- these are big questions. we are not going to get into them in soundbites. >> i am

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it comes after the doj agreed.hannon sat down with former commissioner robert mcdowell to talk about this new hurdle. mcdowell serves as outside counsel to t-mobile. robert: you will have a couple of layers of enforcement here. the department of justice takes their conditions, the best the to u.s. district court in washington, d.c. a federal judge will review the deal. that will take a few weeks that will be done this fall. the doj can always go back to court to enforce any aspect of the deal. similar with the ftc, we have not seen a draft order yet but that should be coming in a few weeks. the fcc will have, i am sure, stiff fines and penalties for the companies if they on it living up to their end of the bargain. attack ono prongs of behalf of consumer protection should all these companies not be complying. it's belts and suspenders in terms of protection for consumers in the marketplace. ed: in terms of the regulatory theatrics in the media, we do have this situation where you have the fcc coming up independentl

shannon: jennifer rubin writes doj, hurt by trump's own standards as an exoneration, the doj could not find comey broke the law. are they on level playing grounds when it comes to this or are there other things comey could be facing as we await the report on the fisa application? >> the case of trump in the case of comey a different. trump did not commit collusion with russia as mister mueller's investigation found. one thing i heard just now, jim comey did not violate criminal law but everything he did if he had been an fbi agent or justice department attorney he would have been fired on the spot by the attorney general and would have deserved it because you are not allowed is a justice department attorney to just spread it around because you feel like it. we cooperate with prosecutors because we expect and to keep it secret and confidential to solve crimes, not to make someone look better. of jim comey want to special counsel he could have gone out and said i think trump is unfit for office and there should be a special counsel, he would have achieved his goal. shannon: this is what

brady violations are of a piece of what we've heard out of this cast of characters and failure by the doj officials to turn over the information that's exculpatory. so i'm prepared to believe a lot cuof this. some of the details are a bit hazy. there have been a number of different interviews from slightly different facts. >> i have a question here. it's a bit of an odd timeline,be someone can explain it if strzok and all these guys, comey, they didn't want trump to win, and then why -- we're hearing this stuff about, well, it was an attempt to blackmail hillary. robert, do you understand that?k terry this. do you get that aspect? >> i do understand that aspect, laura, however, again, this is counterintelligence investigation, there aren't any 302s, for even example, counterintelligence assets are not reported on 302s, they're a reported on memos and what we used to call inserts. so they're not the same kind of -- they don't have the same kind of oversight that you would think is -- that you would see in the criminal field. so who knows? as harmeed just said, there's a question of all of

the doj and the fbi investigating all of the circumstances into epstein's death. things like what were the guards doing, how did this happen. epstein was in the special housing unit. the cell mate that he was with the night before was not there the night that he died. he was taken out. the fact that he was on suicide watch but then taken off. of course, what were the guards doing? sources tell us that two senior doj officials have been sent to the metropolitan correctional center by william barr to continue to investigate what is happening and ultimately all of this, charles, as we have congress calling for full transparency into these investigations. they want everybody to know what happened here because obviously there's a lot of conspiracy theories going on based on epstein's contacts, very high level people and the fact that ultimately people are having a tough time understanding why the most high profile inmate at the mcc was able to kill himself inside the special housing unit, which is a place there supposed to be more eyes on you. >> you don't have to be a

it's not a violation to violate doj or fbi policies. it may be for the department but that's different than a criminal act. i think that conclusion by the inspector general that he did violate fbi rules while probably technically true on its face, it just so misses the context of the time. it's so devoid of the context of what happened and what comey was responding to, it really feels me like the ig has missed the mark. you have to go back and remember when comey took this step, the president of the united states had asked him to back off an investigation into the national security adviser. he asked him for loyalty. when comey didn't do any of those things, the president fired him and then went on television and she had he fired him to help end the russia investigation. the idea comey was supposed to take this up with the inspector general rather than alert the meamerican public and try to gea special counsel appointed seems like a complete missive of any real context of what was happening in the real world by the inspector general. >>

that means that doj goes before a civil judge, noncriminal judge and says. this guy we should have this set aside, and it goes to us, a judge determined but likely for restitution, second option, would be all of these victims that will likely sue the estate, note new york state child victims act that goes into effect thursday. that means anyone -- >> lifts statute. >> for next year. >> so, just so viewers understand, likely less -- more efficient route would fr from te victims suing the estate itself not goiing forfeiture out with doj that gets tied up. >> all right, we have much more with the panel. they are coming up next, talk about joe biden, once again. firing up the good old gas machine over the weekend. wait until you hear what he screwed up this time, will there come a point where voters heard enough, we discuss that after the break. let me ask you something. can the past help you write the future? can you feel calm in the eye of a storm? can you do more with less? can you raise the bar while reducing your footprint? for our 100 years we've been answ

he can't talk to the barrel anymore so he talks to a senior level doj official, and it's unheard of. first of all, imagine a local cop or local informant or source who was let go because they are biased and they can't follow the rules? you wouldn't want them on any kind of case and much less an investigation like this. but bruce ohr carried this information to doj and put himself in the chain of custody which is unheard of for a prosecutor. i'm stunned when i read the articles but i knew about it a year ago so i guess my level of stunned has dissipated. >> jason: and nellie ohr is 1 of 20 employees at fusion gps. and you could no longer do business with mr. steele but this timeline is such that they continue to do business together. >> right, but why? they have a source that they can't keep as a source. the punishment is, you are no longer a source. the punishment is not you get your information to the doj another way, it doesn't work that way. >> jerry nadler has caused a lot of confusion on a lot of fronts. but the idea is, is this impeachment or is it not impeachment? is it formal

on the other side doj thinks it's a matter for contract law, not antitrust.e same side of facts and circumstances it's a fundamental difference on how it should be applied. david: this is all pretty high-profile, but let's be frank, nothing is as high profile as the nfl. this is about your sunday pass for directv, this is serious business. [laughter] >> a lot more people are more concerned about that case than they are about the investigation of facebook or whatever. after all, facebook is free. nfl, we pay hundreds of dollars to get the pass. it's a real issue affecting real thele and i bet much of viewing public cares about that issue deeply. we just had a decision from the ninth circuit. interesting enough, justice stevens, who recently passed away, he had put this issue a side we thought, on how to apply antitrust laws to professional sports leagues, but it came back in the contact -- context of these broadcasting rights. nfl at as a collective -- nfl as has exclusive rights. as a chargers fan, if you will, diego, tos fan in san give you an example, want

>> well, in terms of timing, it seems that doj and dhs are saying, look, this just happened. it's a coincidence that it happened during the el paso visit, after the el paso shooting. but it's really hard to see this in a vacuum. because oftentimes, i.c.e. does have raids that are scheduled and they pull back for a variety of reasons. one, because it leaks out that it's going to happen. two, if there's a natural disaster, we've seen them cancel all enforcement operations in hurricane areas, if there's a hurricane headed toward a particular area where they have raids planned. it is very easy for them to pull back and do this at another time or to do it on a smaller scale. workplace raids had really come to a halt under the obama administration because they really create mass chaos, something that this administration has been known quite a lot more for and its immigration policy. and in terms of the justice department, what we've been asking a lot of them and the prosecutors in mississippi, who are connected to the justice department -- the u.s. attorney for the southern distric

he didn't leak classified information, but he acted in contravention of doj policy.g information that he knew to be classified is what saves him from being criminally charged. because as we know, now multiple times, including donald trump jr. and, frankly, hillary clinton and the president, that meeting that criminal standard is very high and very difficult at times. and so certainly, no, he did not leak classified information, but this is the drum beat today and this is where -- the report is frankly somewhat fair to director comey that this is conduct that if we wish to treat information as secure and protect the integrity of the investigate and, frankly, frequent the safety of the doj personnel, you need to follow the guidelines with respect to how to safeguard information. >> ann, what do you make of the decision not to prosecute? it seems you think that was fairly easy to make? >> yes. i think here there's no question that they made the right decision. there is absolutely no intent to leak classified information. elliott mentioned they classified the documents a

the defining our friend matt miller, doj spokesman and frequent critic of comey described this way, quote, the ig basically faulted comey for speeding on his way to say a fire was coming. but the president and his campaign have come out swinging today, attacking comey with the usual smears. in fact trump falsely accused comey of leaking classified information on at least ten occasions. >> comey, by the way, lied and leaked and also leaked classified information. >> then you see the lying and you see the leaking and you see comey lie to congress, nothing happens. you see him leaking, nothing happens. and this is leaking classified information. this is leaking really big stuff. lies before congress, which is just about the ultimate. sworn testimony where comey told so much and he leaked, he leaked classified information. well, if somebody on our team leaked classified information, it would be years in jail. >> the accusation of leaking classified information is one of which comey today can claim total exoneration, as the inspector general and his report finds, and i quote, no evidence of th

they were implemented including one by the doj and what happens after? there was a leadership change and after they conducted an investigation and found that all of the changes that were to be implemented were actually insufficient and that none of them have been working so i think it's wise for them to put her back at the helm because it's not her first time at the helm when it's over going this corruption from the inside out. hopefully we will see a different result. >> dana: briney a nest just us a report authorities would like to speak to her whereabouts, perhaps a mystery. we might have gotten some medication last week because there is a photograph of her in los angeles and she was reading a book on the author of that book wrote for us in "the washington post." "in the days since the book was mentioned, the book has skyrocketed on amazon rankings. a sizzling number 103 closing out on the best seller status but that it sold out and the agent is contacting a publisher to get more books sent over there." that is not the publicity that this case needs.

he is trying to restore the integrity of the justice department to get it away from the obama fbi, dojtical prosecution model back to professionalism. he took this case, they decided they didn't have enough to make a case so they decided not to bring a prosecution. that's what the justice department should do. bill barr deserves a medal for doing this but here's the point. comey isn't out of the woods. he is a target along with a number of other people of a major criminal conspiracy investigation by john durham. it doesn't mean he is going to be charged but he's right in the middle of a grand conspiracy that john durham is investigating. i applaud what bill barr did in not bringing this case. >> laura: i am against runaway prosecutors, patrick fitzgerald working against so many people over the years and in this case anyone else who has political acts for them to grind -- i want to play for both of you what comey said a few months back in 2018 about the leaking issue. watch. >> the fbi gets upset when people make unauthorized disclosures, there was nothing protected about this are class

but the doj has declined to prosecute. tonight, the president is calling comey thoroughly disgraced. while comey says he's owed an apology. here's abc's chief justice correspondent pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight, in a blistering report, the justice department's inspector general says former fbi director james comey violated fbi policy by disclosing details of a controversial memo to the media, laying out concerns about president trump. >> he asked specifically of loyalty. >> reporter: those misgivings led comey to write a series of secret memos, including one alleging that president trump wanted him to go easy on former national security adviser michael flynn for lying about contacts with russia. >> i was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting. >> reporter: comey was so worried about the president, he provided the details of one of the memos to the press. >> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. i asked him to, because i thought that might prompt the p

james comey is setting a "dangerous example" by willfully violating multiple rules, ignoring fbi and doj protocols, but he is not going to face any criminal charges. there's still a whole lot more to come including an investigation into the fisa applications on carter page, based in part on the dirty dossier. as we await those findings, carter page joins us live. hurricane dorian is on a collision course with florida, president trump is canceling his weekend trip abroad to focus on the impending storm. we will bring you a live update. another gaffe for presidential front runner joe biden, he's being fact-checked by "the washington post" which said "almost every detail of a gripping war story that he's been telling for years is wrong." hello and welcome to "fox news @ night," i'm shannon bream in washington. trace gallagher without the right and left are reacting to today's report on james comey but we kicked things off tonight with chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridg catherine herridge. >> the fbi director is held to a high standard because he sets the tone for over 35,000

comey, saying comey violated doj policies and said "dangerous example" for the ovei employees. this is "outnumbered." i'm dagen mcdowell, and here today, town hall editor and fox news contributor, katie pavlich. fox news headlines 24/7 reporte reporter, carley shimkus. former ohio senate mechanic minority leader, capri cafaro. joining us on the couch, "fox & friends" coanchor and radio talk show host, brian kilmeade. you are "outnumbered." "outnumbered." >> brian: yes. >> dagen: hold your reaction. i can't wait. >> brian: this whole move with offices has really hurt our relationship. we used to be next to each other. now we have different floors. i guess i should have stayed that story for the break, go ahead. >> dagen: that i miss you like no one else in the building! [laughter] >> brian: thank you! great to see on television. >> dagen: the ig reaching blistering conclusions on james comey's decision-making, specifically his drafting, leaking, and retaining memos of private talks with president trump. the ig finding "by not safeguarding sensitive information obtained during th

i've also been told by heinz and cal doj that there are 16 u.s. doj recommendations that are being held up until we do have a 3.01. i've been asked to please see if we can get this adopted, after discussion today. the language that i will address briefly is on page four. before i get to that, there was a question about mou, this was before as last time. the department went through all of their m.o.u.'s which are memos of understanding. i must have seen a listing of 75 m.o.u.'s, but the ones that were significant that they address, or impact doj's or policy, as opposed to simply be working agreements having to do with practice, are before us today. so that the commissioners could see those. there is also a matrix attack -- attached, it is a separate document. one of the criticisms that we have in the u.s. d.o.j. is that we do not have a nimble, and quick system of changing and analyzing d.o.j.'s. this matrix is a working schedule that lays out for the next five years what the schedule of review of the d.o.j.'s will be for the commission. but, as la

trump's doj under cut his claims about jamies comey. we'll get to that. the two areas that's most damaging to trump's political fate. politico reporting growing number of republicans are anxious of the trump economy and starting to feel queasy with trump's china trade war. they're not just worried about trump's reelection, they're worried about themselves. senate republicans fearing any slow down would make harder for them to keep the senate in their hands. growing signs that they should be worried. in fact a new poll finding more people disaprovering trump. trump takes shots on fox news. we'll have more of that later on in the show. with new scrutiny on the lengths trump is going through in order to fulfill his promise of building the wall. one house democrat saying it is appalling and worthy of further investigation. as the judicial committee ongoing investigation into whether or not to recommend impeachment. with me on all of this. reverend al sharpton here on msnbc. our brittany cooper and caddy kay from bbc news. great to have everyone with us. al, l